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Incredible as it may sound, the terrifying creature on the left was actually once a parsnip, rather than the squid-like demon it currently appears to be.

The winner was grown by Hilary Nellist, of Bedford, for the competition organised by the National Trust.

All entries had to be grown from seed, and ranged from multi-storey tomatoes to potatoes that looked worryingly human.

Liz Woodward, the Nationla Trust’s food choices officer, said: ‘This competition was designed to show that we shouldn’t judge a vegetable on its looks and we should challenge the image of the cosmetically perfect and well-formed vegetables found in many of our supermarkets.

‘From the hundreds of entrants received there was a wealth of shapes and sizes and a real belief in the benefits of growing your own veg.’

Benefits like the fact that it looks like a freak, and may possibly summon the dread Elder Gods from their millenia-long slumber, presumably.